In honor of November being Alzheimer’s Awareness month, BioSpace evaluated the current therapies, drugs in the pipeline and disease outlook.

Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company said early results from a study suggest that Apple Inc. devices, including the iPhone, in combination with digital apps could differentiate people with mild Alzheimer’s disease dementia and those without symptoms.

Eisai Co. Ltd. initiated Phase 3 clinical trials of the Alzheimer’s treatment BAN2401 one day after the Japanese drugmaker and U.S. partner Biogen Inc. scrapped studies for the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab.